Ninya Mikhaila
Ninya Mikhaila is a historical costumier who established her business making reconstructions of
historic dress for museums and heritage sites in 1994 after gaining a
Higher National Diploma in Costume Interpretation at the London College of Fashion.
Her clients include Historic Royal Palaces, The Royal Armouries, The National Trust,
English Heritage, The National Archives and Gainsborough’s House.
Ninya featured in the six-part BBC television series A Stitch in Time (2018),
which demonstrated what reconstructing historical clothing can tell us about people in the past.
She also made the clothing worn by Harry Lloyd as Richard III in The Lost King (2022).
Ninya is one half of The Tudor Tailor,
a company specialising in reconstructing, and publishing material on 16th century dress.
